OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Microbiome is 72. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction: Sodium levels and grazing pressure shape natural communities of the intracellular pathogen Legionella	483
Correction: Gut microbiota-derived propionate mediates the neuroprotective effect of osteocalcin in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease	273
Impact of diet in shaping gut virome of grain-fed and grass-fed beef cattle revealed by a comparative metagenomic study	258
Metabolite-mediated interactions and direct contact between Fusobacterium varium and Faecalibacterium prausnitzii	221
β-Elemonic acid mediated enrichment of Paenibacillus to help Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge alleviate drought stress	210
Phylogeny-guided microbiome OTU-specific association test (POST)	199
Microbial active functional modules derived from network analysis and metabolic interactions decipher the complex microbiome assembly in mangrove sediments	196
A glimpse of the paleome in endolithic microbial communities	193
From dysbiosis to defense: harnessing the gut microbiome in HIV/SIV therapy	189
Role of nasal microbiota in regulating host anti-influenza immunity in dogs	189
Using strain-resolved analysis to identify contamination in metagenomics data	186
Should we modulate the neonatal microbiome and what should be the goal?	185
Virus diversity and activity is driven by snowmelt and host dynamics in a high-altitude watershed soil ecosystem	182
Lower viral evolutionary pressure under stable versus fluctuating conditions in subzero Arctic brines	173
Gut dysbiosis promotes prostate cancer progression and docetaxel resistance via activating NF-κB-IL6-STAT3 axis	163
LotuS2: an ultrafast and highly accurate tool for amplicon sequencing analysis	153
Landscape of the gut archaeome in association with geography, ethnicity, urbanization, and diet in the Chinese population	153
H2 generated by fermentation in the human gut microbiome influences metabolism and competitive fitness of gut butyrate producers	149
Microbial community regulation and performance enhancement in gas biofilters by interrupting bacterial communication	147
Engrafting gut bacteriophages have potential to modulate microbial metabolism in fecal microbiota transplantation	145
Oligofructose improves small intestinal lipid-sensing mechanisms via alterations to the small intestinal microbiota	136
Colonocyte-derived lactate promotes E. coli fitness in the context of inflammation-associated gut microbiota dysbiosis	133
Latent antibiotic resistance genes are abundant, diverse, and mobile in human, animal, and environmental microbiomes	127
Microbiota-indole 3-propionic acid-brain axis mediates abnormal synaptic pruning of hippocampal microglia and susceptibility to ASD in IUGR offspring	119
Cover crop root exudates impact soil microbiome functional trajectories in agricultural soils	117

Methanolobus use unspecific methyltransferases to produce methane from dimethylsulphide in Baltic Sea sediments	117
Colonization during a key developmental window reveals microbiota-dependent shifts in growth and immunity during undernutrition	110
No microorganism was detected in amniotic fluid of healthy pregnancies from the second trimester to the delivery	110
Bacterial quorum sensing orchestrates longitudinal interactions to shape microbiota assembly	110
Dissolved storage glycans shaped the community composition of abundant bacterioplankton clades during a North Sea spring phytoplankton bloom	109
Integrated multi-omics analysis reveals the positive leverage of citrus flavonoids on hindgut microbiota and host homeostasis by modulating sphingolipid metabolism in mid-lactation dairy cows consumin	107
Stool energy density is positively correlated to intestinal transit time and related to microbial enterotypes	106
Bifidobacterial carbohydrate/nucleoside metabolism enhances oxidative phosphorylation in white adipose tissue to protect against diet-induced obesity	106
Effects of melatonin on rumen microorganisms and methane production in dairy cow: results from in vitro and in vivo studies	104
Blocked conversion of Lactobacillus johnsonii derived acetate to butyrate mediates copper-induced epithelial barrier damage in a pig model	102
A synbiotic mixture of selected oligosaccharides and bifidobacteria assists murine gut microbiota restoration following antibiotic challenge	101
Complementary insights into gut viral genomes: a comparative benchmark of short- and long-read metagenomes using diverse assemblers and binners	101
Gut barrier-microbiota imbalances in early life lead to higher sensitivity to inflammation in a murine model of C-section delivery	101
Enrichment of vitamin B12-producing Porphyrobacter in the phycosphere microbiome promotes microalgal stress adaptation to antibiotic exposure	96
Virome characterization of wild small mammals provides new insight into zoonotic pathogens in West Africa	96
Geography, not lifestyle, explains the population structure of free-living and host-associated deep-sea hydrothermal vent snail symbionts	95
Gut metabolites predict Clostridioides difficile recurrence	94
Biogeographical survey of soil microbiomes across sub-Saharan Africa: structure, drivers, and predicted climate-driven changes	94
Calcium-containing inorganic immunity booster drives the enrichment of specific root endophytic microbiota against Ralstonia solanacearum	92
VBCG: 20 validated bacterial core genes for phylogenomic analysis with high fidelity and resolution	91
Metagenomics-resolved genomics provides novel insights into chitin turnover, metabolic specialization, and niche partitioning in the octocoral microbiome	90
Gastrointestinal jumbo phages possess independent synthesis and utilization systems of NAD+	90
Gut microbiome-derived indole-3-carboxaldehyde promotes intestinal development via AHR-NRF2 signaling in the early-life of chicks	87
Gut-derived IL-13 contributes to growth via promoting hepatic IGF-1 production	86
Characterizing the gut phageome and phage-borne antimicrobial resistance genes in pigs	86
Reproducible and opposing gut microbiome signatures distinguish autoimmune diseases and cancers: a systematic review and meta-analysis	83
Metaproteomics reveals diet-induced changes in gut microbiome function according to Crohn’s disease location	83
Milk oligosaccharide-driven persistence of Bifidobacterium pseudocatenulatum modulates local and systemic microbial metabolites upon synbiotic treatment in conventionally colonized mice	82
Distinguishing diet- and microbe-derived metabolites in the human gut	82
Correction: Inulin diet uncovers complex diet-microbiota-immune cell interactions remodeling the gut epithelium	82
Machine learning-assisted identification of bioindicators predicts medium-chain carboxylate production performance of an anaerobic mixed culture	81
Metabolite-based dietary supplementation in human type 1 diabetes is associated with microbiota and immune modulation	80
Elucidating the role of the gut microbiota in the physiological effects of dietary fiber	79
Altered gut metabolites and microbiota interactions are implicated in colorectal carcinogenesis and can be non-invasive diagnostic biomarkers	78
The core root microbiome of Spartina alterniflora is predominated by sulfur-oxidizing and sulfate-reducing bacteria in Georgia salt marshes, USA	77
An improved workflow for accurate and robust healthcare environmental surveillance using metagenomics	77
High-resolution metagenomic reconstruction of the freshwater spring bloom	77
Determination of antibiotic resistance patterns and genotypes of Escherichia coli isolated from wild birds	76
Anthropogenic activities mediate stratification and stability of microbial communities in freshwater sediments	75
Gut microbiota-derived ursodeoxycholic acid alleviates low birth weight-induced colonic inflammation by enhancing M2 macrophage polarization	75
The effect of 3-nitrooxypropanol, a potent methane inhibitor, on ruminal microbial gene expression profiles in dairy cows	75
Eubacterium siraeum suppresses fat deposition via decreasing the tyrosine-mediated PI3K/AKT signaling pathway in high-fat diet-induced obesity	75
Global analysis of the biosynthetic chemical space of marine prokaryotes	74
Correction: Microbial active functional modules derived from network analysis and metabolic interactions decipher the complex microbiome assembly in mangrove sediments	73
Regulation on microbial composition,serotonergic synapse, and apoptotic signaling pathway by extracts fromSonchus brachyotus DC. (SBE) to improve ethanol-induced acute oxidative stress in mice	73
Decoding populations in the ocean microbiome	73
Gut microbiota-derived short-chain fatty acids promote follicular maturation via gWAT-ovary axis in mammals	73
Sulfate-dependant microbially induced corrosion of mild steel in the deep sea: a 10-year microbiome study	72
Stable, fluorescent markers for tracking synthetic communities and assembly dynamics	72